VERY FINE CASED INSCRIBED COLT 1861 NAVY REVOLVER, 131ST PA, ADJUSTANT SAMUEL H. POLLOCK

VERY FINE CASED INSCRIBED COLT 1861 NAVY REVOLVER, 131ST PA, ADJUSTANT SAMUEL H. POLLOCK

01-25068
Cal. 36
S# 7902

Standard configuration of the 7.5″ round barrel model 1861 Navy which Colt manufactured concurrently with the octagonal barrel model 1851 Navy. This very fine survivor retaining most of its original finish was made mid 1862 right at the time when Samuel Pollock was accepting his commission in the 131st Pennsylvania infantry. Revolver is housed In a red base lined mahogany casing compartmented for revolver and accoutrements.

Adjutant Samuel Hepburn Pollock (1838-1865) born in an aristocratic Pennsylvania family. His father James Pollock had previously been governor of Pennsylvania, and served as Lincoln’s director of the US Mint, under his reign, “In God We Trust” was added to all American coinage, the first coin with this new motto was the 1864 2-cent piece. Adjutant Pollock first worked with his father at the US mint as his private secretary, he would then enlist in the 131st Pennsylvania mid 1862, survive unscarred by war and some of the fiercest battles of the army of Potomac, only to come home to die of disease, October 1865 at the age of 27. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: large file of research.

PROVENANCE: from the Lifelong Collection of Robert “Mike” Bricker.

STATUS: ANTIQUE